You can't change consensus on a whim. Standardness filters don't work. But even if they did, Bitcoin Core does a release once every six months and people can take years to upgrade. Spammers can adjust because the release is even out. So for all intends and purposes these filters are static.
Now you add a privileged public key to each that accepts new filters in real time. Then they wouldn't be static. And then OFAC asks for the corresponding private key.
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* before the release is even out
Okay, perhaps one of several reasons why filters may be ineffective is that they cannot be changed fast enough. And, dependance on constant updates is a potential attack vector. It is still a stretch to describe the position as wanting static filters. And automatic updates by a trusted party would be crazy. Nobody of any note is talking about that or changing consensus - another strawman.
The meta point is that misrepresenting the other side’s arguments (i.e. straw manning) is not an effective strategy for persuading informed fence sitters. That is true even when you are right about the specific issue at hand.